Archive for August, 2006

New MotoGP Bike from a F1 Engineer

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

A British motorcycle will win the MotoGP World Championship for the first time since the glory days of the British bike industry in the 1950s if Formula 1 engine guru Mario Illien succeeds in a radical plan to break into the two-wheel world.

Illien, 57, has spoken fully for the first time about his ambition to launch a full two-bike MotoGP team in 2007, backed by an intended €20 million budget, to coincide with the start of the new era of 800cc engines.

"We will react faster and make decisions faster," he said. "We have to be able to compete for the world championship within three years. I am confident that we can do it."

Illien, whose Ilmor engines have won two Formula 1 titles with McLaren-Mercedes and 11 Indianapolis 500 races, was comparing his operation to the Japanese factories that dominate the MotoGP grid. He has a team of 12 people working on the MotoGP project in his factory at Brixworth, Northamptonshire, where the V4 engine is being built. The company employs 60 people at the plant, and a further 52 in the USA.

"We have done three track tests, and we’ve had an engine running on the dyno since April," he said. "We haven’t had a catastrophic failure yet, and one of the engines on the dyno has run for more than 13 hours."

Illien, who was born in Switzerland, said the team has now built seven engines and two complete motorcycles. The engines are four-valve, twin-cam designs with gear-driven camshafts, and the valves are pneumatically operated.

He confirmed that he is talking to grand prix veterans Alex Barros and Max Biaggi in the hope they can debut the bike at the Portuguese MotoGP on October 15 and in the final round of the season on October 29.

Eskil Suter, a former 250cc grand prix rider who has previously built chassis for Kawasaki’s MotoGP bikes, has designed a twin-spar aluminium frame for the project, and is convinced that the bike will be successful.

"The bike behaves as planned or even better," he said. "We’re very excited about how it works."

It’s no secret that series organisers Dorna would like to see British riders figuring more prominently in MotoGP, and what could be better for spectator and TV appeal than a top British rider on a home-built machine.

Candidates might include current BSB stars Leon Haslam and Shane Byrne, both of whom have grand prix experience, former WSBK champions James Toseland and Neil Hodgson, who wants to return from American Superbike duties with Ducati, and MotoGP veteran Jeremy McWilliams.

This is, however, entirely paddock conjecture at this moment and Illien has made no comment about British riders.

Signs of Female Infidelity By: Drew Higgins

Monday, August 21st, 2006

Guys tips on the ultimate insecurity – is SHE cheating?

She’s no longer as needy and demanding as she used to be.

At the begging of the relationship she couldn’t even cross the street on her own. You were demanded to pick her up,drop her,go shopping,exercise,etc.
Suddenly she doesn’t need your company anymore;this clearly means that
someone else is filling in your place.There is a slight possibility that she might need some time on her own,but if she is getting unusually independent when she used to be really needy and dependent, it is more likely a signal that she is no longer needs YOU.

She no longer gets angry by herself.

If your women used to be angry for anything and picked fights for subjects out of thin air,or for ridiculous issues like not being able to meet her for lunch or come hang out with her and her friends,and now all that anger has gone away,is a clearly bad sign.There used to be a time were were you had to calculate and premeditate every move,since even the smallest thing would mess everything up and provoke a rage on her.This is something to take in consideration,since you can start wondering what ever happened to her…

She begins to become more and more secretive.

Remember when she used to drain your brain with all that incredibly long and
boring chats about her daily events?Remember when she was even discussing with you how a salad dressing,a pair or shoes or a bitchy coworker ruined her day?Well,if she has closed this channel of communication could mean a big and serious alert. She is no longer volunteering to give out any information about her daily happenings because is most like that she is hiding something. You might find yourself digging into the garbage can or trying to crack her diary pretty soon…

On the little time she spends with you she gets “over focused

Before you even open your mouth she turns the table on you.That crazy blabber jukebox has run out of records and now she just listen to what you have to say. When you start asking question,she gets almost monosyllabic-t ´s all about “you ” and “you ” and “only you ” rather than “i did this ” or “i was here last night ”. She doesn’t wanna step into any of her lies,that is why she carefully listens to everything you say!

She is showering you with gifts as a part of covering her tracks.

The best way to lie is to act upon it.She will give you “i love you ” cards out of
the blue,and might even offer you to wash your car,dinner for you and your
friends and pay for the beer.You stupidly think that all these are sweet gestures, when they are nothing but an overcompensating behavior that can only make everything even more suspicious.f you get flooded by niceties,you might want to know what is really going not,and usually is not that good.

She picks fights quick y if confronted about even the dumbest things.

The days were you both could communicate in pace and harmonious precision are long gone.Every time you confront her,every sentiment that you express sets her of,and there is always a good excuse to lash out at you.Does this situation sounds familiar? She is subconsciously trying to justify her dirty little tryst.By nagging you when confronted she eliminates some of all of her nagging guilt. If she starts to burst out of this confronting situations and she attacks you and points out your every flaw,push the “cheater alarm ” button and get to the bottom of what is going on.

Her new "friend"

A telltale sign that your wife /girlfriend /partner is cheating arises when a
mysterious friend inches their way into the picture.Could be co-worker,or an old friend from "way back,"she keeps this friendship under wraps and is hesitant to share any general details about them,much less introduce you.And it doesn’t take a Ph.D.to figure out why.

She refuses to answer simple questions

Anyone who refuses to answer even the simplest and fairest of questions is
without a doubt hiding something.Also if she answers questions only after
repeating them back to you (indicating that she is searching her brain for a good lie lie).Be wary of times when,rather than reveal that she got home at midnight, she begrudgingly asks,"Why do you want to know what time left the pub?" if she gets defensive about disclosing information that she used to volunteer without hesitation,there is a good chance that she is hiding something..or someone.

Breaks the routine extremely often

Once she gets involved in a hot and heavy romance elsewhere,you have to be a plant not to feel any shift in her daily priorities.All of the sudden,there no more implied dates,like “Sunday afternoon movies ” or “Pasta Fridays at Benito ´s ”. Something else “got on the way ” or “comes up ”.There is a tendency for most philanderers to schedule their meetings with her new “thing ” or “flame ” as often as they can be,with a complete disregard from previous engagements.

Sexual relationship is completely gone

And this is a KEY factor.f she is still with you,but she won ´t have ANY SEX,not
even spooning in the nude,turn on the “cheat siren ” and start reading the writing on the wall.She is either with you because she got used to it,she is in it for the money or you have terminal Cancer and she is the sole beneficiary of your will. Once the sex has stopped,it is more likely that she is getting it from someone else.

JUST LIKE MEN THOUGH!!!